Thinking Quotes - Page 9

Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

The only way to educate oneself is by making books a life companion.

Beware! Success is not what you think it is. It's a trap.

Believing and investing in yourself is the best way to shift your thinking from a paradigm of excuses to one of solutions.

After seeing a movie that dramatizes nuclear war, they worried more about nuclear war; indeed, they felt that it was more likely to happen. The sheer volatility of people's judgement of the odds--their sense of the odds could be changed by two hours in a movie theater--told you something about the reliability of the mechanism that judged those odds.

Focus on the future and the outcomes you want, not your present setbacks or failures.

Be careful of what you assume, what you assume often becomes what you consume

I don’t existmetal pressed to pagesspilling blood, inkin vein each thought ragesSunlight shootingthrough a forest of pinesblack top windingand yellow dotted linesI am not hereonly a deep aching,a lightning flashand a tree trunk breakingSheets once alive covered in a deep redmark the presentbut I am not yet deadNothing is hereonly the rain and mistfresh air and soilI do not need to exist.

The less you think and the more you do, the better things tend to become.

Now we’ve a real intellectual impasse. Our reason, which is supposed to make things more intelligible, seems to be making them less intelligible, and when reason thus defeats its own purpose something has to be changed in the structure of our reason itself.

I write things down because my thoughts get too heavy in my head and it hurts my neck.

Nothing is as it seems, but something is everything it is made out to be.

Who cares what the Bible means to me? We need to know what it means. That's where I have to allow God to redefine my thinking. He tells us in Romans 12:2 not to be conformed to this world but to be transformed by the renewal of our minds. What always gets me about this verse is he's telling believers we still need to be transformed. It means I have a saved spirit but I still think with a lost brain, and slowly but surely my mind has to be transformed. Such transformation comes but one way - by truth. By his Word.

Stop and think about who you are and where you've come from. Love yourself and comfort your spirit. Don't go wandering the streets looking for love and attention. Self love and respect must be a priority

Review how you spend your money and time across all areas of your life, and judge for yourself whether your investment in your mind is right for the future you want.

That's where all the trouble in life comes from. Thinking.

No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it. It is only with your own knowledge that you can deal. It is only your own knowledge that you can claim to possess or ask others to consider. Your mind is your only judge of truth—and if others dissent from your verdict, reality is the court of final appeal. Nothing but a man’s mind can perform that complex, delicate, crucial process of identification which is thinking. Nothing can direct the process but his own judgment. Nothing can direct his judgment but his moral integrity.

Positive thinking is powerful thinking. If you want happiness, fulfillment, success and inner peace, start thinking you have the power to achieve those things. Focus on the bright side of life and expect positive results.

Be unwilling to lose.

An Englishman thinks seated a Frenchman standing an American pacing an Irishman afterward.

You were born for a purpose and a special reason.Your purpose identifies your passion, your potential, the source of your fulfilment in life, and ultimately your success

Creating the good life is like following a recipe; specific ingredients are required to guarantee the promised results and each has to be carefully selected and added in the right quantity and sequence. If you get it right, the outcome is guaranteed. If you change or alter the ingredients, the outcome changes.

If you learn to be grateful and celebrate each day, you have mastered the secret to living.

Never go into battle for your ego, Learn to battle for something much greater.

In the success equation, subtraction comes before multiplication or addition. You must sow before you can reap a harvest.

Don't let your life be steered by your reluctance to do a little extra thinking.

It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion.

It took us a while to discover that we do effectively think, but that we more readily narrate backward in order to give ourselves the illusion of understanding, and give a cover to our past actions.

weren’t you alwaysdistracted by expectation, as if every eventannounced a beloved? (Where can you find a placeto keep her, with all the huge strange thoughts inside yougoing and coming and often staying all night.)…

A life of passion is not an act or a habit but a lifestyle.

How you choose to live is one of the best indicators of the future you will have.

People think a lot, but most of that thinking is of a problem, project or situation - not about it

Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.

Why were there no words that spoke positively about being concerned about the self? Why was there only negative connotation in terms like "selfish", "self-interested", "self-centred", "self-obsessed" and so on? Why was it so much better to be without a self: "selfless", "self-sacrificing", "self-effacing", etc?

The metaphysical poetry of our innovative life springs from the aesthetic, scenic, and systematic processes of inventiveness, the creative impulse of an active mind generating aesthetical intuition.

There is a science to living well and art to experiencing the good life, and it begins with wisdom.

Your past karma is what you found difficult or challenging in this life. To heal your past karma you would need to learn your life lessons for this life.

When you change the way you think about a situation, everything connected to that situation will change.

Asking questions is an essential daily habit, because your experiences are often in proportion to the questions you ask.

If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you.

The mind defines, decides, doubts and divides - only the heart truly binds.

This life is quite a rave- few heartaches, some long waits, altering faiths & breaking cliches!

We are all teachers, we all have knowledge and experiences that can teach others.

Your experiences are often in proportion to the questions you ask.

I wish I could think about nothing, but the books all the time. I have never had an alcoholic rampage because of thinking about books too much...

Stop allowing your outdated ideas to hinder your progress. Become open to new information that can refine, improve, and enhance your way of thinking. This will empower your way of living.

The promise of the future is only possible when the price is paid in full and in advance.

You live like it is your best when you live on purpose.

Feelings that would not have disgraced a leader who, now that the snow has begun to fall and the mountain-top is covered in mist, knows that he must lay himself down and die before morning comes, stole upon him, paling the colour of his eyes, giving him, even in the two minutes of his turn on the terrace, the bleached look of withered old age. Yet he would not die lying down; he would find some crag of rock, and there, his eyes fixed on the storm, trying to the end to pierce the darkness, he would die standing. He would never reach R.

Invest in books that will help you become the person you were born to be and do what you should do.

Your private thoughts give birth to your public acts.

Now I have to lie on the bed for a few minutes and let the solitude gather round me once more.

So, there’s this hornet’s nest. And there’s this long stick. And then there’s me. How I walk away from all of this will depend on whether I realize that some things go together and some things don’t no matter how hard you try.

Think honestly.Think humbly.Think honorably.Think happily.

What you feed your mind, will lead your life.

If your life itself is not a message then no matter what you preach, your preaching will become a hypocrisy.

You have the paintbrush in your hand, you can make the picture of your life brighter and bigger or duller and darker, it’s up to you.

Boredom is probably more frequent and more tormenting if you do not have sight or hands.

Thinking is not a thing that can undo itself. It can never be its own solution.

Change in thinking + shift in perspective = change in your life